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The 26-year-old dominates in Manchester, landing the night’s biggest prizes as Rosé, Wolf Alice and Mark Ronson also take top honours
Olivia Dean was the big winner at the 2026 Brit awards, taking home awards for artist of the year, pop act, song of the year for her Sam Fender duet Rein Me In, and album of the year for The Art of Loving.
In less than a year, Dean has leaped to the forefront of British pop thanks to The Art of Loving, her second album. With songs that get to the heart of the joys and frustrations of casual modern dating, she is enormously relatable, while her sophisticated and cosmopolitan songcraft, deftly finessing styles such as bossa nova, trip-hop, neo-soul and jazz together, has given her an unusually broad and cross-generational appeal.
Continue reading...CMAT, Wolf Alice, Wet Leg, Self Esteem and Loyle Carner say musicians should not shy away from politics – with several warning of ‘scary times’ as the far right gains ground
Artists including CMAT, Wet Leg, Loyle Carner, Wolf Alice and Self Esteem expressed concern about the rise of Reform UK on the Brit awards red carpet, saying artists should feel empowered to be political.
CMAT, nominated for international artist of the year at the ceremony in Manchester, said she was “not a big fan of anyone trying to argue that art is not a political place”.
Continue reading...US president posts on Truth Social that Iran’s supreme leader, ‘one of the most evil people in History, is dead’
Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been killed in the opening salvo of a regime change war launched on Saturday by the US and Israel, Donald Trump has claimed.
The US president announced the death of the ayatollah, who has ruled Iran as supreme leader since 1989, in a post on Truth Social.
“Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,” Trump wrote.
“He was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do.”
Trump said that the goal of the military campaign, which began on Saturday morning with a barrage of missiles and airstrikes, was regime change.
“This is the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country,” he wrote.
Air strikes halt bitter political feuding ahead of elections as prominent Israelis call for a broad open-ended war
Air raid sirens emptied Israel’s streets on Saturday and filled its bomb shelters, as the country braced for waves of Iranian attacks.
But individual fear and resignation did not temper broad political and popular support for the country’s second regional war in less than a year.
Continue reading...DUBAI (ANP/RTR/AFP) - De luchthaven van Dubai is zaterdag beschadigd geraakt bij een "incident", meldt Dubai Airports in een verklaring op X na golven van Iraanse raketaanvallen. Bij het incident raakten vier medewerkers gewond.
"Een hal op Dubai International liep lichte schade op bij een incident, dat snel onder controle was", aldus de luchthaven. Om wat voor incident het precies ging, heeft het vliegveld niet bekendgemaakt. "Dankzij de al bestaande noodplannen waren de meeste terminals al eerder ontruimd van passagiers", staat in de verklaring.
Volgens de autoriteiten in Dubai veroorzaakte een wrakstuk van een neergeschoten drone brand bij het iconische luxehotel Burj Al Arab. De brand is inmiddels onder controle. Daarbij vielen geen gewonden.
Iran heeft zaterdag, nadat Israël en de Verenigde Staten samen meerdere aanvallen uitvoerden op het land, zelf ook talloze raketten en drones afgevuurd op landen in de regio, waaronder Qatar en de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten. Dit land meldt dat er 137 raketten en 209 drones op zijn grondgebied zijn afgevuurd.
TEL AVIV (ANP/RTR/AFP) - Bij een Iraanse raketaanval op de Israëlische stad Tel Aviv is zeker één dode gevallen, melden Israëlische hulpdiensten. Ook zouden minstens 20 mensen gewond zijn geraakt.
Volgens The Times of Israel is het dodelijke slachtoffer een vrouw van in de 40. Volgens de ambulancedienst Magen David Adom is er nog een persoon ernstig gewond. De rest van de gewonden is met lichter letsel naar ziekenhuizen vervoerd.
In verschillende delen van Israël waren zaterdagavond meerdere explosies te horen, nadat het Israëlische leger meldde dat Iran een nieuwe reeks raketten had gelanceerd.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft de dood van de Iraanse ayatollah Ali Khamenei via Truth Social bevestigd.
"Khamenei, een van de kwaadaardigste mensen ooit, is dood", schrijft hij. "Dit is niet alleen gerechtigheid voor het Iraanse volk, maar voor alle geweldige Amerikanen en mensen uit vele landen over de hele wereld die zijn gedood of verminkt door Khamenei en zijn bende bloeddorstige SCHURKEN".
Een hoge Israëlische functionaris meldde eerder op zaterdag dat de Iraanse leider is omgekomen bij Amerikaanse en Israëlische aanvallen op Iran en dat zijn lichaam was gevonden. Iran weersprak dat.
"The drought of upcoming Star Wars movies is coming to an end soon," writes Cinemablend. In May the The Mandalorian and Grogu opens, and one year later there's the release of the Ryan Gosling-led Star Wars: Starfighter.
But "there are some insiders who already believe that Starfighter will be a bigger hit than The Mandalorian and Grogu..."
According to unnamed sources who spoke with Variety, there's a "sense" that Star Wars: Starfighter, which is directed by Deadpool & Wolverine's Shawn Levy, will be a more satisfying viewing experience. These same sources are allegedly impressed by the early footage they've seen of Ryan Gosling's performance and also suggested that Levy has "recaptured the franchise's spirit of fun." Furthermore, the article states that there's concern that because The Mandalorian and Grogu is spinning out of a streaming-exclusive series, it might not have as much appeal to people who aren't already fans of The Mandalorian... Star Wars: Starfighter, on the other hand, will be accessible to everyone equally. It's set five years after The Rise of Skywalker, which is an unexplored period for the Star Wars franchise onscreen. It's also expected that most, if not all of its featured characters will be brand-new, so no knowledge of past adventures is required.
Slashdot reader gaiageek reminds us that 2027 will also see a special 50-year anniversary event in movie in theatres: a "newly restored" version of the original 1977 Star Wars.
But "there are some insiders who already believe that Starfighter will be a bigger hit than The Mandalorian and Grogu..."
According to unnamed sources who spoke with Variety, there's a "sense" that Star Wars: Starfighter, which is directed by Deadpool & Wolverine's Shawn Levy, will be a more satisfying viewing experience. These same sources are allegedly impressed by the early footage they've seen of Ryan Gosling's performance and also suggested that Levy has "recaptured the franchise's spirit of fun." Furthermore, the article states that there's concern that because The Mandalorian and Grogu is spinning out of a streaming-exclusive series, it might not have as much appeal to people who aren't already fans of The Mandalorian... Star Wars: Starfighter, on the other hand, will be accessible to everyone equally. It's set five years after The Rise of Skywalker, which is an unexplored period for the Star Wars franchise onscreen. It's also expected that most, if not all of its featured characters will be brand-new, so no knowledge of past adventures is required.
Slashdot reader gaiageek reminds us that 2027 will also see a special 50-year anniversary event in movie in theatres: a "newly restored" version of the original 1977 Star Wars.
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It started Friday when all U.S. federal agencies were ordered to "immediately cease" using Anthropic's AI technology after contract negotiations stalled when Anthropic requested prohibitions against mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. But later Friday there were even more repercussions...
In a post to his 1.1 million followers on X.com, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth criticized Anthropic for what he called "a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon."
Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic's models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic... Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of "effective altruism," [Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei] have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission — a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives. The Terms of Service of Anthropic's defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield. Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable...
In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic... America's warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.
Meanwhile, Anthrophic said on Friday that "no amount of intimidation or punishment from the Department of War will change our position." (And "We will challenge any supply chain risk designation in court.")
Designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk would be an unprecedented action — one historically reserved for US adversaries, never before publicly applied to an American company. We are deeply saddened by these developments. As the first frontier AI company to deploy models in the US government's classified networks, Anthropic has supported American warfighters since June 2024 and has every intention of continuing to do so. We believe this designation would both be legally unsound and set a dangerous precedent for any American company that negotiates with the government... Secretary Hegseth has implied this designation would restrict anyone who does business with the military from doing business with Anthropic. The Secretary does not have the statutory authority to back up this statement.
Anthropic also defended the two exceptions they'd requested that had stalled contract negotiations. "[W]e do not believe that today's frontier AI models are reliable enough to be used in fully autonomous weapons. Allowing current models to be used in this way would endanger America's warfighters and civilians. Second, we believe that mass domestic surveillance of Americans constitutes a violation of fundamental rights."
Also Friday, OpenAI announced that "we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network."
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman emphasized that the agreement retains and confirms OpenAI's own prohibitions against using their products for domestic mass surveillance — and requires "human responsibility" for the use of force including for autonomous weapon systems. "The Department of War agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the Department of War also wanted. "
We are asking the Department of War to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
In a post to his 1.1 million followers on X.com, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth criticized Anthropic for what he called "a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon."
Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic's models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic... Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of "effective altruism," [Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei] have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission — a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives. The Terms of Service of Anthropic's defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield. Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable...
In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic... America's warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.
Meanwhile, Anthrophic said on Friday that "no amount of intimidation or punishment from the Department of War will change our position." (And "We will challenge any supply chain risk designation in court.")
Designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk would be an unprecedented action — one historically reserved for US adversaries, never before publicly applied to an American company. We are deeply saddened by these developments. As the first frontier AI company to deploy models in the US government's classified networks, Anthropic has supported American warfighters since June 2024 and has every intention of continuing to do so. We believe this designation would both be legally unsound and set a dangerous precedent for any American company that negotiates with the government... Secretary Hegseth has implied this designation would restrict anyone who does business with the military from doing business with Anthropic. The Secretary does not have the statutory authority to back up this statement.
Anthropic also defended the two exceptions they'd requested that had stalled contract negotiations. "[W]e do not believe that today's frontier AI models are reliable enough to be used in fully autonomous weapons. Allowing current models to be used in this way would endanger America's warfighters and civilians. Second, we believe that mass domestic surveillance of Americans constitutes a violation of fundamental rights."
Also Friday, OpenAI announced that "we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network."
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman emphasized that the agreement retains and confirms OpenAI's own prohibitions against using their products for domestic mass surveillance — and requires "human responsibility" for the use of force including for autonomous weapon systems. "The Department of War agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the Department of War also wanted. "
We are asking the Department of War to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Son is a restaurant and listening bar in Athens that blends vinyl culture with Mexican cuisine. The concept is rooted in the idea of family?quite literally, Son?and the beauty of generational continuity. At its heart is the spirit of family sharing, with a menu designed for communal experience. Our visual identity plays with contrast: the bold, disciplined lines of the blackletter logo pay homage to Mexican heritage, while spontaneous handwritten touches bring a sense of warmth and ease. Together with our "analog & comfy" color palette, ground the entire identity in warmth. A central figure in our storytelling is the Teddy Bear, a recurring "hero" that pops up across various brand applications. This playful character provides an intentional twist, subverting the often-elitist aura of traditional listening bars to make the space feel accessible and genuinely friendly. The tagline we developed, 'Que Padre', acts as a linguistic bridge. It plays on the fatherly connection (padre meaning f
Macr1 has added a photo to the pool:
Jyttes Hytte is over 5m high and 4m wide. She is peeping at us from behind the tree with her big, kind-looking eyes.
"The words that you’re about to hear, they hold a special meaning
I know they’re seemingly untrue, but trust me, you’re not dreaming.
There is a rhythm in the rain – you can hear it drop by drop.
But if no one sings along, then soon the song of rain will stop
First the sun must hit the ocean so the ocean turns to clouds.
Then the wind must move clouds to land, collect them in a crowd.
The clouds must let the raindrops fall upon the land will open
So then mountain water, rivers run and flow back in the ocean.
And there are six old hidden giants, in the bush and on the bay.
And each of their voices is crucial for the harmony to play.
They used to sing the song together – the six old hidden giants.
But one got lost, then six turned five, and now the song is silent
So go find the hidden giants and help restore the order.
‘Cause a giant needs its company, like fire needs its water.
There is one in Perth, four in Mandurah, and one hidden far apart.
But find the five and bring the mark before the last you start.
Just one thing you must remember: be brave and do not tire.
Through sun and clouds and rain and rocks the ocean and the fire.
Sing this song for them in honour – just like the old hidden giants.
That’s all I had to say today – now on your way, and find them."
Artist - Thomas Dambo
Starting with the news 2026 is Mothra Year, Wikizilla's video review of "The Luminous Fairies and Mothra" has more details than a quick review of the book at The Japan Times, but the Wikizilla entry for the book has even more. On Youtube, there's also an interview with the book's translator. In 2023, the novelizations of "'Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again' by Shigeru Kayama" appeared in English thanks to the same translator, interviewed then too. Related, because these books are a little of both: in 2025, AskMe suggested "✨LESS OBVIOUS✨ books that have been adapted into movies," and looking from the opposite direction, Jim Knipfel reflected on "The Art and History of Movie Novelizations."